The 20 Best Twist Endings in Movie History

The following post contains SPOILERS. How could it not? This is a post about twist endings, guys. Unless the twist is we didn’t talk about any actual movies, we kind of need to spoil them.

Twist endings are one of the toughest nuts to crack. The best kind of twists can make your career — or they can dominate everything else you do so audiences always expect you to tell stories with surprise finales.

The worst kind of twist endings can sink your career, and make people despise everything you do moving forward. With the release of Glass, the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan (who embodies the best and worst of twist endings) —and maybe in honor of another major release this coming weekend that people don’t even realize yet has a massive twist — let’s take a look at some of the very best twists in film, the kinds of rug-pulling surprises that make you rethink everything you’ve just seen in exciting and unexpected ways.